Shingles Near Completion

    

 

 It's safe to say now the shingles are almost all on the house. They have been for over a week now. We are still waiting on a piece of end wall flashing that has been delayed another week and half due to an ordering error from the Big Orange Box store....AGAIN. But thank you to their wonderful assistant manager she has help us out...AGAIN! Many many thank you's for her wonderful customer service and patience. Once we get those we will be able to call the exterior FINISHED! That time is just around the corner. I am very happy to say that all the shingles have been treated and sealed and are now just happily waiting to go on our walls. I am so glad that part is done, I don't know how people with larger homes do it.

One of the things that makes this project amazing is all the blessing we have received along the way.

We were putting up the shingles reached the point where we couldn't reach high any more. Ideally in this situation scaffolding works... But we don't have any and didn't want to rent any. We could have used the fork lift but it's not available until later in the day.... So what to do. Fionnbharre put his Thinking Cap on.... That wasn't working so he put his Asking Cap on and thought "I could really use scaffolding right now.....ahh hah!! Perhaps Chris our landlord has some".... So he takes a little walk over to the junk area behind the shed and what's there???? You guessed it, SCAFFOLDING!! Things like this just keep happening and we are SO grateful!

 

  

Thats a Happy Man and his Scalfolding

We are Back in Business

DIP...BRUSH...DRIP...DRY...

Mean while back in the garage, I was diligently working on getting all of these shingles dipped and dried and ready for installment.

 

 Now for the other side of the house...

 One if the tricky things about putting shingles on is getting them straight all the way across so you don't SHWAVES (shingle waves). Shwaves are better then Wingles but they just don't look very good. As you can see if the pictures below, we used twine screwed into one side of the wall wrapped around the corner and pulled as tight as possible across the trailer to the other corner to create a very tight and straight guideline. This way you aren't left with any funky markings from the having drawn on the shingles and you don't end up with shwaves.

 

The days are getting shorter now... It's time to bring out the lights.

There was still one tiny part of the roof to do. This front bump out. We WERE waiting on the flashing we ordered from the Big Orange Box, after having the misorder occurrence Fionnbharre put on his creative hat again, decided we didn't need special flashing and that we had enough scraps that he could piece something together that would work just fine... and it did!